Hewson Baltzell
President of Helios Exchange and Co-Founder of MSCI ESG Research
PLANNING TEAM
Monique Barbut
Former Executive Secretary at UNCCD and CEO of the Global Environment Facility
Fred Boltz
Water and Resilience expert. Previously Managing Director for Environment at Rockefeller Foundation
Eric Butter
Head of Product, Modern Energy. Previously, Head of Technology, Tenor Capital Management
Isabel Cavelier Adarve
Senior Advisor to Christiana Figueres, Mission 2020. Previously climate negotiator, Colombia
Rodney Cohen
Managing Director and Co-Head of Carlyle Growth Partners and Carlyle Equal Opportunity Fund
Chris Davis
Senior Advisor and former Senior Director, Investor Network at Ceres
Martin Doyle
Professor on Water Science, Policy, Finance, Duke University. Advisory Board Chair, The Internet of Water
Lionel Johnson
President of Pacific Pension & Investment Institute and Board Member of RAND Corporation
Bruce Kahn
Board Member, USSIF. Previously Portfolio Manager, Sustainable Insight Capital Management
Bob Litterman
Founder of Kepos Capital, Chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission Climate-Related Market Risk Subcommittee, and Vice Chair of WWF
Liquan Ma
Managing Director and expert on climate-integrated investing at Cambridge Associates
Madhu Mathew
Director of Technology, SASB
Scott Nicholas
Sr. Director of Strategic Programs at The Linux Foundation
Ria Persad
Founding CEO of StatWeather. Previously modeler and advisor for Goldman Sachs, Duke Energy, NASA
Gary Rahl
Managing Director, Deloitte. Retired 2018 as EVP and Leader of Booz Allen Hamilton’s commercial energy and transportation businesses
Jason Scott
Partner at Encourage Capital; formerly Founding Director, Generation Investment Management
Truman Semans
CEO of OS-Climate
Previously CEO of fintech company Intersect, Partner at management consultancy GreenOrder. US Treasury International Economist, US Climate Negotiating Team Finance Lead, Director of Pew Business Environmental Leadership Council (BELC), consultant with McKinsey. Co-Founder and Executive Committee Member, US Climate Action Partnership (USCAP). Investment Committee Member, National Wildlife Federation.
Deborah Spalding
Deputy Chief Investment Officer, The Common Fund. Previously Chief Investment Officer for State of Connecticut
Florin Spinu
Chief Technical Product Manager at PivotalPath. Previously Director of Quantitative Investments, OMERS
Dave Thau
Data and Technology Global Lead Scientist at WWF. Previously, Manager of Developer Relations team for Google Earth
Michael Tiemann
Vice President of Open Source Affairs at Red Hat / IBM
Dan Vermeer
Professor and Director, Center for Energy, Development, and Global Environment (EDGE), Duke University.
Chris Zegras
Associate Department Head, MIT Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. Head of MIT’s Mobility Futures Collaborative.